FAITH IN VICTORY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 April 1941, Page 6

FAITH IN VICTORY

GREAT BRITAIN AMERICA’S FIRST LINE. CONSEQUENCES OF NAZI WIN REALISED. London. My Dear Kingan: . I am more than a little troubled by the fears on behalf _of Great Britain which are so freely, although so sympathetically, expressed in the United States. . . . I find this outlook disturbing because it seems to be evidence of the successful working in the United States of the German propaganda machine. The enemies of this country have as a part of a deliberate policy designed to embarrass us in our dealings with neutral States preached widely and persistently the doctrine of the “inevitability” of a German victory. . . The value to the Germans of successfully implanting the “inevitability” idea in the minds of neutrals and particularly of Americans is obvious. It leads to emphasising the futility of sending material aid to a country that is as good as beaten already and, more insidious still, to the suggestion that the United States will shortly have to face up alone to the threat of Nazi domination and must therefore conserve all their resources for their own direct purposes. ... The truth is that the Germans have not yet had to encounter the full power of a united people, well armed, well prepared, with the resources of continents behind them, and above all, strenthened by the conviction that the spiritual life of the whole world for generations to come depends upon their victory. The issues at stake in this war are not material; every spiritual value to which mankind has so painfully won in the upward struggle towards a Christian way of living is imperiled.

If proof be needed, contrast for precept, the Sermon on the Mount with Mein Kampf and, for practice, the life of Christ with all the horrol' that Germany has visited on those that have passed within her power. . .

The more that fears for our safety are coupled with the expression of hope that we shall win, the more arc our friends in America playing the German game; for the fears of those who wish us well are more destructive of confidence than those voiced by the avowed opponent. I think many, perhaps most of you. want Great Britain to win. The besthelp that the general public can give us is to feel and profess faith in our victory. To do otherwise is to give real and effective help to Germany. If we may judge from the declhred policy of the United States Government and from the pages of the American press, the American people are becoming increasingly aware of the consequence that would follow, to themselves, of a German victory. These consequences are so little to their liking that they have come to regard Great Britain as their first line of defence and the American Government are both extending to this country all available material aid and proceeding themselves with an immense armament programme.

A. S. Rogers, General Manager. London and Lancashire Insurance Co.

(The above letter appeared in a recent issue of the “Christian Science Monitor.”)